May 16, 2017, Filed Under: Research + TeachingRansom Center Awards More Than 60 Fellowships The Ransom Center has awarded more than 60 fellowships to postdoctoral, dissertation, and independent researchers studying topics ranging from the work of author Julia Alvarez to environmental protest in Nigerian literature to music and sound in film trailers.
April 28, 2017, Filed Under: Digital Collections, Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing ArtsMel Gussow’s interviews with actors, playwrights, writers, and directors to be digitized The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) has awarded the Ransom Center a “Recordings at Risk” grant for $24,600, supporting the project “Preserving the Interview Recordings of Mel Gussow, American and British Theater Critic.” The Ransom Center holds the Gussow (1933-2005) papers.
April 21, 2017, Filed Under: Film, Theatre + Performing ArtsArchive acquired of theatre and film actor Peter O’Toole The Ransom Center has obtained the archive of British-Irish theatre and film actor Peter O’Toole (1932–2013).